Last weekend, a cavernous former bank vault in lower Manhattan was transported for one night—which happened to be Friday the 13th—back to the 80s, when the hair was bigger, the songs were sweeter, and ...

In an age of bouncy and slow trap-based rap music — where the tempos of songs are usually between 130 and 160 beats per minute (BPM) — it's refreshing that certain rappers are bringing freestyle music ...

How freestyle—a frenetic, synthetic Latin-flavored ’80s dance genre—bridged the disco and hip-hop eras while racking up scores of hits. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support.

Freestyle, the subgenre of dance music that emerged in the early years of the 1980s and hit peak popularity toward the end of the decade, isn't a particularly easy sound to define. It's a hodgepodge ...

Before freestyle — the dance music born out of New York’s Latin community in the 1980s — even had a name, an underage Lisa Velez (before she became Lisa Lisa) remembers sneaking into the storied Fun ...

In the Miami-Dade suburb of Westchester sits a shopping center on Bird Road whose name makes an idyllic reference to the local demographics: Las Americas Plaza. From 1983 to 1985, in a corner of the ...